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Thread #133984   Message #3603510
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
21-Feb-14 - 10:04 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Subject: RE: BS: Christmas Truce (1914)
Our doctors and nurses.
Lions led by arses?

"The NHS trust which runs Stafford Hospital will be sentenced today for safety breaches which led to the death of a diabetic patient in 2007.

The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust faces an unlimited fine after pleading guilty to failing to ensure the safety of Gillian Astbury, who lapsed into a diabetic coma after a fall.

The Trust, which was at the centre of a public inquiry into its "appalling" standards of care between 2005 and 2009, admitted an offence brought under health and safety law at Stafford Magistrates' Court last October.




At the earlier hearing, the Trust acknowledged it had failed properly to manage and organise hospital services, including patient information systems and processes for communication between staff members"